It's Official!

I got my arrêté de nomination (work contract) in the mail yesterday! So now I can certainly say that I will be working at two middle schools in Saumur. And...they have an apartment for me! With a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom! That means that I won't have to worry about finding one once I get there, and usually when you stay at the schools it is much cheaper, which means more money for traveling! So now I need to mail in a paper accepting the job, and sometime soon I should probably email my contact person to find out more about the apartment and ask other questions that I need to think of.

In other news, I am back home in the US. My last couple days in France were fantastic! Our drive up to Normandy was so beautiful, and so was the town that we stayed in.

Parc Asterix was also a lot of fun, pretty much your standard amusement park. We went on all of the roller coasters and a couple of the water rides, not all of them though because it was a bit chilly. The next day we went to a cute little town called Verneuil (top and bottom right pictures) because we needed some internet, then we walked through the town which was lovely. Afterwards before going back to the house we stopped by a chateau (top left). It was closed so we couldn't go in or anything, but it was still beautiful. So then we ate dinner and relaxed a bit before leaving at 1am for the airport. It was quite a long day. But overall my two flights went really well. All until when we were landing in DC and a boy near me started throwing up. Glad it was at the end though. Yuck.

It is nice to be home now, but after getting my work contract I am all giddy thinking about next year :)